期刊
ATMOSPHERIC MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES
卷 3, 期 3, 页码 557-567出版社
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/amt-3-557-2010
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The recently increasing development of whole sky imagers enables temporal and spatial high-resolution sky observations. One application already performed in most cases is the estimation of fractional sky cover. A distinction between different cloud types, however, is still in progress. Here, an automatic cloud classification algorithm is presented, based on a set of mainly statistical features describing the color as well as the texture of an image. The k-nearest-neighbour classifier is used due to its high performance in solving complex issues, simplicity of implementation and low computational complexity. Seven different sky conditions are distinguished: high thin clouds (cirrus and cirrostratus), high patched cumuliform clouds (cirrocumulus and altocumulus), stratocumulus clouds, low cumuliform clouds, thick clouds (cumulonimbus and nimbostratus), stratiform clouds and clear sky. Based on the Leave-One-Out Cross-Validation the algorithm achieves an accuracy of about 97%. In addition, a test run of random images is presented, still outperforming previous algorithms by yielding a success rate of about 75%, or up to 88% if only serious errors with respect to radiation impact are considered. Reasons for the decrement in accuracy are discussed, and ideas to further improve the classification results, especially in problematic cases, are investigated.
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